Out of Work Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America [Paperback]

Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.

The most comprehensive book ever to appear on unemployment in the United States. A book of great interest. Vedder and Gallaway show convincingly that we need once again to rethink our entire notion of unemployment. A triple hit: an engaging narrative of a century of U.S. economic history . . . an attack on the mythology that high wage rates and government spending reduce unemployment and a critique on wrong-headed public policies since 1930 that have raised unemployment levels.